- Source: Medven Glacier
Medven Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Медвен, romanized: lednik Medven, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈmɛdvɛn]) is a 2.5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated east of Etar Snowfield, south of Urdoviza Glacier and north of Berkovitsa Glacier. It is bounded by the east slopes of Oryahovo Heights and drains eastwards into Prisoe Cove, Hero Bay between Remetalk Point and Agüero Point. Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.
The glacier is named after the settlement of Medven in the eastern Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria.
Location
The glacier is centred at 62°32′50″S 60°42′50″W.
See also
List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Glaciology
Map
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
Medven Glacier. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
Medven Glacier. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Medven Glacier
- Remetalk Point
- Prisoe Cove
- Arroyo Point
- Agüero Point
- Urdoviza Glacier
- Berkovitsa Glacier
- List of glaciers of South Shetland Islands
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic: I–Z
- Bulgarian toponyms in Antarctica (M)
